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New school admissions dropped by 40,000 in 2023
The number of children admitted to Grade One classes of schools had dropped by around 40,000 last year, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha says.
The Education Minister said the decrease in the number of births might have been the reason for the drop in the number of children being admitted to schools here.
The statistics of the Ministry of Education indicated a trend of decreasing the number of children being admitted to the Grade One classes in government schools. In 2021, the total number of children admitted to the Grade One classes was 304,105. In 2022, the corresponding number dropped by 11,889 to 292,216.
Meanwhile, the Family Health Bureau sources said that 258,235 persons had used for family planning methods in 2022. Of them 30,719 opted for Vasectomy operations.